Inner SE Child Care Planning Project Completed
Article by Robin Murray, Fall 00 Issue, ROSE Community Developments
After months of research and cooperation with REACH Community Development, the final draft of the Strategic Plan for Child Care in Inner Southeast Portland has been approved by the ROSE Board! The plan makes several recommendations for addressing the gaps between parents' needs and providers' capacity to fill those needs. There are four main areas where we can use of expand existing programs to improve child care in Inner Southeast:
1. REACH could promote child care in the REACH Newsletter and tenant progras to informa eligible parents of assistance and services available, inform parents and providers of services available through Metro Child Care re source and Referral and provide consumer education to parents in reducing non-child care expenses.
2. ROSE could add the providers in the REACH Service Area to ROSE's Child Care Neighbor Network to increase the quality of child care by increasing caregiver access to training, raise provider income by decreasing business expense through small grants and loans and trhough marketing assistance.
3. REACH could extend it's Community Builders program to family child care providers with low income to improve the quality of child care by increasing the safety of provider homes and raise provider income by decreasing business expenses and improving marketability.
4. REACH could follow ROSE's example and incorporate child care facilities into future REACH housing projects to encourage neighborhood-based child care and provide opportunity for low income providers.
In addition, the plan also identifies nine alternate plan objectives, most of which require additional research and fundraising beyond what already fits into REACH and ROSE current prgrams. Examples include train parents and providers in advocacy to try and raise Adult and Family Services assistance, other public funding for child care programs, and working to partner large employers and existing providers in need of better space to develop facilities.
A public presentation of the plan was held at Buckman Elementary School on October 3rd.
Copies of the plan are available at ROSE, or call Robin Murray at ROSE (503)788-8052, ext 104 to have a copy mailed to you!
RNA Editor's notes:
Richmond Neighborhood Plan
Objective 2.2 Promote the establishment of quality care options for parents, grandparents and others who are responsible for children and adults needing them.
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Article by Robin Murray, Fall 00 Issue, ROSE Community Developments
After months of research and cooperation with REACH Community Development, the final draft of the Strategic Plan for Child Care in Inner Southeast Portland has been approved by the ROSE Board! The plan makes several recommendations for addressing the gaps between parents' needs and providers' capacity to fill those needs. There are four main areas where we can use of expand existing programs to improve child care in Inner Southeast:
1. REACH could promote child care in the REACH Newsletter and tenant progras to informa eligible parents of assistance and services available, inform parents and providers of services available through Metro Child Care re source and Referral and provide consumer education to parents in reducing non-child care expenses.
2. ROSE could add the providers in the REACH Service Area to ROSE's Child Care Neighbor Network to increase the quality of child care by increasing caregiver access to training, raise provider income by decreasing business expense through small grants and loans and trhough marketing assistance.
3. REACH could extend it's Community Builders program to family child care providers with low income to improve the quality of child care by increasing the safety of provider homes and raise provider income by decreasing business expenses and improving marketability.
4. REACH could follow ROSE's example and incorporate child care facilities into future REACH housing projects to encourage neighborhood-based child care and provide opportunity for low income providers.
In addition, the plan also identifies nine alternate plan objectives, most of which require additional research and fundraising beyond what already fits into REACH and ROSE current prgrams. Examples include train parents and providers in advocacy to try and raise Adult and Family Services assistance, other public funding for child care programs, and working to partner large employers and existing providers in need of better space to develop facilities.
A public presentation of the plan was held at Buckman Elementary School on October 3rd.
Copies of the plan are available at ROSE, or call Robin Murray at ROSE (503)788-8052, ext 104 to have a copy mailed to you!
RNA Editor's notes:
Richmond Neighborhood Plan
Objective 2.2 Promote the establishment of quality care options for parents, grandparents and others who are responsible for children and adults needing them.
Is this your interest?
